Cash-register.



PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

F. & R. DEGENHARDT.

CASH REGISTER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1906.

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W/TNESSES WITNESSES P P. (in R. DEGENHARDT. CASH REGISTER. APPLICATION FILE SBPT.19, 1906.

ATENTED JAN. 14, 1 908.

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UNITED STATES PATENZ IiQE.

FREDERICK DEGENHARDT AND RICHARD DEGENHARDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CASH-REGISTER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1%, 1908.

Application filed September 19.1906. Serial in. 335.216.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK Daenninner and RICHARD DEGENIIARDT, citizens of the United States, and both residents of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in (laslsllegisters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention has for its object to provide means capable of being attached to a cash register and adapted to record the time within which individual deposits are made therein; This we accomplish by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which tion; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on tarv side elevation of operating disks having the line ,2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmenreciprocating pawl connected therewith -d a tappet adapted to operate the pawl; 4 is a side elevation partly in section, of recording disks mounted upon a shaftand taken on the line i-4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 55 of F t; and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are detached operating disks.

As illustrated in the drawings, 1 represents a casing provided with a hearing for a shaft 2 which extends at one end through the Wall of the casing as shown in Fig. 4. Registering disks 3, 4, 5 and 6 are mounted upon said shaft and separated from each other by means of disks 7 which are ,rovided with V-shaped or symmetrical notc 1es 7" formed on their periphery as shown in Fig. 5. The notches of the spacing disks 7 are adapted to receive the inner end 8 of levers 8 which are pivotally mounted upon a hub or arranged between the upper end of a late 9 and the end wall of the casing, and ield in position by means of a stud screw 9 -Tlie opposite end 9 of the plate 9 is provided. with and 12 and ink roll 13 shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A tensioning device may he attachedto sleeve the end of the casing, and consists of side bars 14 pivotally attached to the casing by means of a stud 15 and provided with a roller 16 as shown in Fig. 1. I

The ink roller 13 is mounted upon a stud 17 connected with a spur gear 18 which meshes with a similar spur gear 19 rotatably mounted on the end of the casing. The spur gear 19 meshes with a similar gear 20 attached to a shaft 20 jonrnaled-on the end of the casing. The shaft 20. is rotated by means of a awl 21 fixedly secured to a shaft 22 and pivotally connected to a finger 21 which is adapted to engage a ratchetwheel 20 mounted on the shaft 20 and rotate said shaft intermittently. A backpawl 23 is provided with a spring 23 and pivotally secured to the end of the casing by means of a stud .24 and adapted to hear at its free end against the ratchetwheel 20 mounted upon the shaft 20 and thereby prevent a backward rotary motion :of the shaft 20. The end of the shaft 20 is provided with a flange 20 and is therelov adapted to serve as a spool around which is' wound a recording tape 25 which is passed over a spring platen. 26 and around a spool 27 pivotally mounted upon the end of the casing. The platen ze'is secured to the end of the casing by means of a stud semi-v26 and supported at one end by means of a stud 26 A lever 28 is pivotally mounted upon a stud 29 secured'to 'the end of the casing and is provided on its forward end with abalancing-weight 30. The lever is also" provided with a striker 31 adapted to bear against the under side of the platen 26 and raise the free end of said platen so as to bring the recording tape 25 thereon and the ribbon 11,in contact with the registering disks mounted upon th shaft 2.

The striker 31 of the lever 28 is held in close proximity-to the platen 26 by means of'a spring 32 hearing against the lower edge of the lever 28, and said lever is pressed downward at its free end so as to remove the striker 31 from contact with the platen 26, by means of a cam 33 mounted upon-a shaft 3%.

The shaft 22 is connected with keysarranged in the front of the registentand whenever one of said keys is depressed a partial rotary motion is given to said shaft and the pawl 21 connected therewith, which,

s, 8 b ens oi mounted upeh the to beer the finger- 8" formed. on she imyer arm of lever The h'sekii erd movement of she 2e lower armor" the levers (is; the for ward erui i 8.210 as to engage sh masses '1' of J; disks i messy 10451; the 1 mover? L iii e 'eeo'r fig ribhe,

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shit .15 COD" O the? and meant-ed 0 as re estate together or oh other. The disk i Wiiihnu .1ereis indiestin free-i (2 she (i isk with humerregular s provided wish siterneieiy ousei. operating siiy spaced is of notches ms ie .1 a, deep then-tile no here'hefier deso'rih 1. 365i erovieied i V. a de rf res;

' provided shoved forward and depressed by its own he and receive a pawl 38* formed on the res end or" lever 38 which is pivots-11y con- (1. with a vertical 1ever39 by means of a pin The lever is pivoted at s ierer no. to the casing of the register by pie 39 and said "lever is hrovided spur or fingerBW adapted to he ever in by e tsppet iG-Whiiih' is keyeZi or 0th se fixeciiy secured to ashaft il as shown in Fig. 3. The shaft i1 is connected with a. train oi. ciook meehenism i2 and. is thereby i'o a-ted continuously. shown. in. the (Lima gs, the shaft-4:1 is desighesi to make one revoiutionsn hour, and the tappet. is provided with four fingers so" regw isriy' speeeii to strike the spur 3S and move the upper end of the lever 39 ferwsrd. four iznes in an heur.

By increasing the number of fingers on t tsppet the upper end of the lever 39 in be moved forward often as desil edduring predetermined period of time. As she upper en i of the iev r is moved forward, the pawl 38 formed 011 the lever 38 is g: er.

Weight into one ofithe note-hes 35 the operating (L sk 35*. As she fingers 40 leave the spur of the. iever 39, theiipper end of "id lever is drawn beer-Nerd and heid in its normal position by means of a spring 39 :1. l pied therewith, and secured at one end the easing 1 of the register. Such sek ward movement of the upper end of the lever J39 rose es the operating disk 35 and regisiering disk 35 in seep-like order, and arranges one of the n remis on the periphery of said disk in iine W! 1 the striker 81 misting i. H so as is} rem-rd. said humeral on bhe e 2 The ta'ppet 4G bQ-ififl constructed to operate the pawl 88? at inrervels of 15 minutes, the disk 35 will be moved. sine notch et said interval, thereby bringing the Qawl 38 into engagement with v the deeper notches 35 every hour. The operating disk 36' ispro- *icied with fiweive net-shes oer-responding to hem-rs, and the pawl 38 eherefore engages the notches 35 of the minuteoperating disk 35?, the pswlwill engage one of the notches 3%, of the hour-operating disk 35 and partisiiy rotate seid disk and the registering disk 36 conheezed eherewithhf'teiuthe disk 36 has been partieiiyroteted eleven times by the pawl 38', it isopersted the twelfeh time by means of thepewi 38 eh the deeper 35; When the hot-ch 6 i he dish garment with she oteh disks to register upon the tape 25 wi hichiis 113D sveme progressively moved from the spool 27 to the shaft 20 interniittentl r whenever the keys of the register are operated.

By means of the construction herein shown and described the amount of the sales, or depositr rnade in the register, are recorded on the tape 25, and said tape marked With-equal sub-divisions of time indicating between what periods of time the records of said sales or de osits were made on the tape.

W rat e claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. The combination of a plurality of rotatably mounted nested sleeves, each provided on one end with a registering disk, and on the opposite endwith a ratchet wheel, detents mounted on the said sleeves adjacent to said disks, pivoted levers adapted toengage said detents, and clock operated mechanism adapted to engage and rotate said ratchet Wheels.

2. The combination of a pluralitv or" rotatably mounted nested sleeves providedon one end with registering disks, and the opposite end with ratchet wheels, detest l having llshaped notches mounted on said sleeves adjacent to said disks pivoted levers adapted to engage said detents, and clock operated mechani m adapted to engage and rotate said ratchet Wheels.

3.- The combination of a plurality rotatably mounted nested sleeves, having different diameter from the other, registering disks attached to the end of said sleeves adjacent to each other, detent Wheels connected with said registering disks, pivoted. levers adapted to engage and hold said de tent wheels against rotary movement in direction, ratchet wheels attached to the opposite ends oi said sleeves, and a pivoted clock 0 erated pawl adapted to engage the teeth or said ratchet Wheels.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDK DFGENHARDT. RIQHA D DEGElU-ZARDT.

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W. Haunts. 

